Talk:March fracture

A fact from March fracture appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 December 2008, and was viewed approximately 1,927 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a march fracture is a fracture of metatarsals mostly occurring in soldiers who need to do a lot of marching?

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I have nominated this article for DYK today 22 december 2008. Ganesh Dhamodkar (Talk) 06:02, 22 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This page has been verified for DYK section and will soon appear on the Main Page. Ganesh Dhamodkar (Talk) 06:50, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal

Before creating this article, I had searched on wikipedia by name March fracture, and it was not there. But today, while making some edits, i found that the article stress fracture is already there. It has a redirect from Marching fracture and not from March fracture.

As this article is already there on wikipedia, i think both of these articles should be merged. Ganesh Dhamodkar (Talk) 06:35, 25 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

- Yesterday, I went home and again searched for material regarding stress fracture and march fracture. I found that Stress fracture is a broader term, and a March fracture is the stress fracture of metatarsal bones only. so I think both the articles can coexist in wikipedia. Ganesh Dhamodkar (Talk) 02:45, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Contradiction: which metatarsal?

The opening paragraph says "It mostly occurs in the second metatarsal of the right foot.[1]", while the second section says "March fracture usually occurs at the base of the fifth metatarsal (proximal portion)". The next clause appears to say that a march-like fracture in the fifth metatarsal is called a Jones fracture.—Dah31 (talk) 16:17, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]